BUG! exception in phase ‘semantic analysis’ in source unit ‘Script2.groovy’

Recently, I have upgraded to the java version OpenJDK version “17.0.1” 2021-10-19 IBM Semeru Runtime Open Edition 17.0.1.0 (build 17.0.1+12) Eclipse OpenJ9 VM 17.0.1.0 (build openj9-0.29.1, JRE 17 Windows 10 amd64-64-Bit Compressed References 20211207_55 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)

Jmeter 5.4.3 is giving follow error in logs when running any JMX file. Any idea how to resolve this issue?

022-06-09 07:59:31,354 ERROR o.a.j.JMeter: Uncaught exception in thread Thread[ProgramServices Case 1-1,6,main] org.codehaus.groovy.GroovyBugError: BUG! exception in phase ‘semantic analysis’ in source unit ‘Script2.groovy’ Unsupported class file major version 61 at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit$ISourceUnitOperation.doPhaseOperation(CompilationUnit.java:905) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.compile(CompilationUnit.java:627) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.doParseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:389) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.lambda$parseClass$3(GroovyClassLoader.java:332) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader$$Lambda$539/0x00000000cfbb0448.provide(Unknown Source) ~[?:?] at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.memoize.StampedCommonCache.compute(StampedCommonCache.java:163) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.memoize.StampedCommonCache.getAndPut(StampedCommonCache.java:154) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.parseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:330) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.parseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:314) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.parseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:257) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl.getScriptClass(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:336) ~[groovy-jsr223-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl.compile(GroovyScriptEngineImpl.java:181) ~[groovy-jsr223-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.apache.jmeter.util.JSR223TestElement.processFileOrScript(JSR223TestElement.java:211) ~[ApacheJMeter_core.jar:5.4.3] at org.apache.jmeter.visualizers.JSR223Listener.sampleOccurred(JSR223Listener.java:54) ~[ApacheJMeter_components.jar:5.4.3] at org.apache.jmeter.threads.ListenerNotifier.notifyListeners(ListenerNotifier.java:58) ~[ApacheJMeter_core.jar:5.4.3] at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.notifyListeners(JMeterThread.java:1024) ~[ApacheJMeter_core.jar:5.4.3] at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.executeSamplePackage(JMeterThread.java:579) ~[ApacheJMeter_core.jar:5.4.3] at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.processSampler(JMeterThread.java:489) ~[ApacheJMeter_core.jar:5.4.3] at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:256) ~[ApacheJMeter_core.jar:5.4.3] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:884) [?:?] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 61 at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.(ClassReader.java:189) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.(ClassReader.java:170) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.(ClassReader.java:156) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.(ClassReader.java:277) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.AsmDecompiler.parseClass(AsmDecompiler.java:81) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ClassNodeResolver.findDecompiled(ClassNodeResolver.java:251) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ClassNodeResolver.tryAsLoaderClassOrScript(ClassNodeResolver.java:189) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ClassNodeResolver.findClassNode(ClassNodeResolver.java:169) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ClassNodeResolver.resolveName(ClassNodeResolver.java:125) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.resolveToOuter(ResolveVisitor.java:871) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.resolve(ResolveVisitor.java:506) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.resolveFromDefaultImports(ResolveVisitor.java:663) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.resolveFromDefaultImports(ResolveVisitor.java:626) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.resolve(ResolveVisitor.java:505) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.resolve(ResolveVisitor.java:468) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.resolveOrFail(ResolveVisitor.java:338) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.resolveOrFail(ResolveVisitor.java:330) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.resolveOrFail(ResolveVisitor.java:326) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.transformConstructorCallExpression(ResolveVisitor.java:1239) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.transform(ResolveVisitor.java:902) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.transformBinaryExpression(ResolveVisitor.java:1207) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.transform(ResolveVisitor.java:896) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassCodeExpressionTransformer.visitExpressionStatement(ClassCodeExpressionTransformer.java:108) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.stmt.ExpressionStatement.visit(ExpressionStatement.java:40) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.CodeVisitorSupport.visitBlockStatement(CodeVisitorSupport.java:86) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassCodeVisitorSupport.visitBlockStatement(ClassCodeVisitorSupport.java:164) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.visitBlockStatement(ResolveVisitor.java:1564) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.stmt.BlockStatement.visit(BlockStatement.java:69) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassCodeVisitorSupport.visitClassCodeContainer(ClassCodeVisitorSupport.java:138) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassCodeVisitorSupport.visitConstructorOrMethod(ClassCodeVisitorSupport.java:111) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassCodeExpressionTransformer.visitConstructorOrMethod(ClassCodeExpressionTransformer.java:66) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.visitConstructorOrMethod(ResolveVisitor.java:294) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassCodeVisitorSupport.visitMethod(ClassCodeVisitorSupport.java:106) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.visitMethods(ClassNode.java:1099) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.visitContents(ClassNode.java:1092) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassCodeVisitorSupport.visitClass(ClassCodeVisitorSupport.java:52) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.visitClass(ResolveVisitor.java:1473) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ResolveVisitor.startResolving(ResolveVisitor.java:262) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.lambda$new$16(CompilationUnit.java:738) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit$$Lambda$565/0x00000000d4bc5fe0.call(Unknown Source) ~[?:?] at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit$ISourceUnitOperation.doPhaseOperation(CompilationUnit.java:901) ~[groovy-3.0.7.jar:3.0.7]

Answer

1. JMeter 5.4.3 comes with Groovy 3.0.7 which was released in December 2020
2. You’re using Java 17 which was released in September 2021

You’re getting the error due to lack of support of Java 17 in Groovy so you either need to:

• downgrade your Java version (the minimum Java version you can run JMeter 5.4.x with is Java 8)
• switch to Nightly build of JMeter
• manually upgrade Groovy libraries in JMeter Classpath